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Author: Dennis Tuuri

The Oregon Senate is now fast-tracking SB 761. It would eliminate so-called “e-sheets.” These are initiative or referral petitions that can be filled out by a single voter and then sent in. It has been in use for ten years and has a much higher rate of authentication than multi-signer petition sheets. It is particularly helpful for the elderly. The…

Oregon, like 40 other states, has record high tax revenues this year, largely due to President Trump’s tax cuts. Oregon’s windfall of 1.4 billion in over-collected taxes are to be rebated to taxpayers via the kicker. Your kicker will now be as much as $450. But as soon as the good news hit this week, both Tina Kotek, head of…

There are certainly many good teachers in Oregon. But last week, thousands of teachers used their positions of trust to politicize their students and classrooms. They acted as raw union politicians, masquerading a bailout of PERS and an attack on liberty as just trying to help the kids. To those who have eyes to see, the RedforEd actions turned a…

This post is not about anti-vaxxers. It is about state coercion versus persuasion. HB 3063, a dramatically coercive immunization bill, passed the Oregon House this week, and may well be voted on in the Senate soon. It would make Oregon one of the most coercive immunization states in the country. Opponents to the bill are well-organized and vocal. They are…

“And if the bugle gives an indistinct sound, who will get ready for battle?” 1 Cor. 14:8 Dispirited. Conservatives in Oregon are staring down the barrel of Democratic supermajorities in both House and Senate, and a radically “progressive” Governor. Multi-billion dollar tax increases and a big loss of liberty will be the result, as surely as night follows day. While…

Anger is a gift from God. But like most gifts, it can be properly or improperly used. Paul tells us in Ephesians 4:29 to be angry, but don’t sin. Oregonians who love and cherish liberty are properly angry with the current Oregon legislature. Massive new taxes, blatant attacks on private property, and draconian restrictions on our Second Amendment gun liberties…

We’re half way through Oregon’s Legislative session and can plainly see the results of large Democrat majorities in both the Oregon House and Senate. Theft of our kicker, attacks on private property and guns, universal home visits for newborns, drivers’ licenses for illegals, and taxes galore are just the tip of the iceberg. While most anger is directed to Gov.…

Whether it was Obama’s bitter clingers, Romney’s “those people” or Hillary’s deplorables, main stream politicians consider nearly half of all Americans as beyond help. They might engage in palliative care for them, not trying to change their conditions but keeping them comfortably numb with a modicum of benefits. They call these “entitlements,” to deceive the deplorables into thinking The Power…

Oregon Senate Passes 1st-In-Nation Statewide Rent Control In an astonishing bit of statist hubris and bullying, Kate Brown is ramrodding a bill that seizes control of private property owners’ decision-making. After just one public hearing, Senate Bill 608 passed the Oregon Senate on February 12 and is now in the House. It limits rent increases to 7% annually and prohibits…

A home is a living space surrounded by walls. Pretty simple concept, although the walls’ purposes are multiple. Walls allow us to rest in our home with a sense of security. From that rest, we go forth refreshed from our homes to love others, and invite some of them into our homes. The failure to erect physical barriers on our…